EO 79 ‘not perfect but very good’

Analette Abesamis

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A long-awaited and delayed Executive Order outlining this administration’s positions on sustainable mining was released this week. The Philippines has the fifth largest mineral reserves around the world, but little of the existing revenues go to the Filipino people under existing laws.  Mining has also become extremely controversial in recent years, with groups calling for a total mining ban.  Much needs to be fixed, and Ateneo School of Government’s Dean Tony La Vina and Atty. Alaya de Leon tell us why EO 79 is “not perfect but very good.”


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